Understanding Kinect V2 Joints and Coordinate System
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One of the most frequent questions I get from people working with the Kinect, and Kinectron is: what is the skeleton actually made up of, and how is that represented? Although many people have…
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The 25 skeleton joints tracked using Kinect (v2) sensor
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Understanding Kinect Coordinate Mapping – Vangos Pterneas
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Sensors, Free Full-Text
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3D skeleton joints tracked by the Kinect v2 sensor.
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Vision4Machine – Machines that work for machines
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Functional movement screen dataset collected with two Azure Kinect depth sensors
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Body tracking - Joint information [question] · Issue #1414 · microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK · GitHub
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CMES, Free Full-Text
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Building a Signaling Server for Simple-Peer
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Skeleton provided by Microsoft Kinect v2 and points excluded from
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Kinect Joint Rotation – The Definitive Guide – Vangos Pterneas
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Frontiers Depression and Severity Detection Based on Body Kinematic Features: Using Kinect Recorded Skeleton Data of Simple Action